Desistance Analysis
Desistance analysis models the process by which offenders cease offending — estimating the timing of the last offense, the hazard of termination, and the decline of offending toward zero. Sharpened by Laub and Sampson and by Bushway and colleagues around 2001, it treats desistance not as a single event but as a process, and confronts the deep measurement problem of telling true termination apart from a long gap or a gradual slowing of crime.
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- Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2001). Understanding desistance from crime. Crime and Justice, 28, 1–69. DOI: 10.1086/652208 ↗
- Bushway, S. D., Piquero, A. R., Broidy, L. M., Cauffman, E., & Mazerolle, P. (2001). An empirical framework for studying desistance as a process. Criminology, 39(2), 491–516. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00929.x ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Desistance from Crime Analysis. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/desistance-analysis
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